diff --git a/json/json.go b/json/json.go
index 028fd1f..e4e3a52 100644
--- a/json/json.go
+++ b/json/json.go
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ func (enc *Encoder) Encode(v any) error {
 	}
 
 	encoderBufferPool.Put(buf)
-	return err
+	return enc.err
 }
 
 // SetEscapeHTML is documented at https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Encoder.SetEscapeHTML
diff --git a/json/json_test.go b/json/json_test.go
index 8256be2..76714b7 100644
--- a/json/json_test.go
+++ b/json/json_test.go
@@ -1993,3 +1993,19 @@ func TestKind(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+type errWriter struct{}
+
+func (ew *errWriter) Write([]byte) (n int, err error) {
+	return 0, errors.New("test-error")
+}
+
+func TestWriterErr(t *testing.T) {
+	enc := NewEncoder(&errWriter{})
+	err := enc.Encode("")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Error("expected error not returned")
+	} else if err.Error() != "test-error" {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error returned: want=test-error got=%s", err.Error())
+	}
+}